Final survey result and evaluation

For our survey we made sure we had at least 100 responses so that our results were accurate. Overall we received 103 responses which is good as now we can look at and evaluate them properly. The results that we have gathered will help us when it comes to making our opening. 

This question tells us that the most common age of people viewing our work are at the age between 15-17. This could be because they are unable to watch 18 rated movies. Therefore making a 15 would be more appropriate as it will have a more wider audience. 

The next question we asked people is if they preferred a 15 or 18 and why they prefer it. The majority of the audience said they preferred a 15 and several answers are because it limits the violent language, gory and sexual scenes. Although, around 20% they preferred an 18 because it included this kind of content. This tells us that we should limit the content we include as the majority of the audience does not enjoy viewing them kind of things throughout a film.

This question was very significant in the survey as it told us that we have to take a lot of time and consider the title sequence as the majority of the audience pay attention to it. 

Asking this tells us that the majority of the audience prefer the title sequence to be fast. However, the percentages are reasonably close which is why we still should consider doing a slow one depending on our story line and what atmosphere we are hoping to create.

We found out that Crime is the most popular sub genre. This tells us that by including aspects of crime we will be successful if we do it in the correct way. However, this is not guaranteed Also, by making a Crime thriller it could turn out bad as it could lack originality because the sub genre is very popular. Supernatural then closely followed by achieving second best. This tells us that we should also consider a Supernatural thriller. As Political thriller only gained 5% of the public's choice I think it would be a bad idea to do this as it isn't very popular and we may find it harder to make it. 

The next question we asked was..

This question helped us as we could see what people normally expect to see in an opening of a thriller film. Several answers were repeated by different people. The answers that were repeated were: Some kind of involvement of action, dark atmosphere being created and suspense and tension being built up. All these answers will help us when making our opening of the thriller film as we know that action is very popular to include and will engage the audience more as they would have seen it before in movies and still continue to watch thrillers. Also, we will have to try and create a dark atmosphere with things such as the lighting, mise-scene and potentially the dialogue. We will need to think about how we can build suspense and tension in the opening of our thriller film. 

 From this question I have learnt that gory scenes and homophobic and racial discrimination could potentially ruin a film for someone. If we include any of gore or discrimination we will have to limit it. The third most popular option was sexual scenes. Again, if we decide we need to include any sexual scenes within and throughout the opening of our thriller film we will have to limit it. It is good that we have found out what people do not like to see in a thriller film as now we have a more advanced understanding of what would be okay to include and what we should try not to include unless it is completely necessary.

James Bond came out the most popular. Because James Bond is so popular we will try and not use too many aspects of the title sequence as it is iconic to James Bond. However, because James Bond is the most well known and popular it can influence and inspire us. Women In Black was then the second most popular. This tells us because it is a horror/thriller film we should look into it as it could influence us to do a horror because of its fame. We then included a section B for this question as we wanted to find out why they think the opening was successful. The music was the most popular by far. This tells us we will need to think about and consider the music as it is one of the most important things in a title sequence. I defiantly think the music is something we should prioritise.  Editing and Effects are then second, even though they are far behind Music, we should consider putting in several kind of effects and different types of editing as they are what makes it partly successful. 

Overall, I am happy me and my group made this survey as we now have a more advanced insight on how to make a successful thriller. Each of the questions we asked help us in what we should and shouldn't include and who we should aim the opening of our thriller at. I think me and my group worked well in making this survey as we received a good about of responses which make our survey accurate. I also think making the two pilot surveys helped us achieve the best answers as possible.